103: Abduction at an HBCU, A Black Girl Missing Movie: Cleashindra Hall

In this episode, we start with Abducted at an HBCU: A Black Girl Missing Movie a gripping Lifetime film that dives into the disappearance of a young woman at a historically Black college. When a student suddenly vanishes, her counselor refuses to look the other way, uncovering a system that too often dismisses missing Black women and girls. The story is fictional, but its message hits painfully close to home. The film shines a light on how the media and institutions frequently overlook these disappearances. How urgency fades, headlines never come, and families are left to fight alone for attention and answers. From there, we turn to the real-life disappearance of 18-year-old Cleashindra Hall, a decades-long missing person case that deserves to be remembered. Cleashindra, or “Clea,” as her family calls her, was an honors student from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, with dreams of becoming a pediatrician. On the evening of May 9, 1994, she finished her shift working for a local business and called her mother to say she’d be home soon. But Cleashindra never made that second call, and she was never seen again. Over the years, her family has searched tirelessly for answers. There were searches, interviews, and countless leads — yet no arrests have ever been made, and no trace of Cleashindra has been found. Despite the time that’s passed, her loved ones have never given up. Like the story told in Abducted at an HBCU, Cleashindra’s case reflects a painful reality: when young Black women go missing, the attention they receive rarely matches the depth of the loss. This episode is about remembering her, and about refusing to let these stories fade into silence. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3odKv1Fin0 https://www.the-sun.com/news/11962351/lifetime-abducted-hbcu-black-girl-missing/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Cleashindra_Hall Black Girl Gone: The Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall https://www.kark.com/news/local-news/family-of-cleashindra-hall-still-hopes-for-answers-nearly-30-years-after-her-disappearance/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09Z4loP9G5g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MC4OwNYmE https://news.morehouse.edu/professor-avery-o.-williams-86-writes-screenplay-for-lifetime-original-abducted-at-an-hbcu-a-black-girl-missing-movie https://www.fox16.com/news/only-on-fox16-transcribed-interviews-from-larry-amos-following-teenagers-disappearance/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-cleashindra-hall-still-hopes-221635171.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices